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*This table comes from Chapter 1 of [[Kazuo Kano]]'s PhD Dissertation, "[[rNgog Blo-ldan-shes-rab's Summary of the Ratnagotravibhāga: The First Tibetan Commentary on a Crucial Source for the Buddha‐Nature Doctrine]]," [[University of Hamburg]], 2006.
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*This table comes from Chapter 1 of [[Kazuo Kano]]'s PhD Dissertation, "[[rNgog Blo-ldan-shes-rab's Summary of the Ratnagotravibhāga: The First Tibetan Commentary on a Crucial Source for the Buddha‐Nature Doctrine]]," University of Hamburg, 2006.
  
  

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Authorship of the RGV[1]
basic verse comm. verse prose comm.
Chinese tradition (ca. 511) Sāramati
Central Asia (ca. late 8th cent.) Maitreya (not mentioned)
Indian tradition (early 11th cent.) Maitreya
Tibetan tradition (late 11th cent.) Maitreya Asaṅga
rNgog's commentary (late 11th cent.) Maitreya Asaṅga(?)
(modern scholars)
Obermiller 1931 Maitreya Asaṅga
Tsukinowa 1936 Sāramati Maitreya Asaṅga
Johnston 1950 Sthiramati
Frauwallner 1956; Ui 1959 Sāramati
Nakamura 1961 Sāramati Vasubandhu
Takasaki 1966 (Maitreya ?) Sāramati
Seyfort Ruegg 1969 Maitreya = Sāramati Asaṅga
  1. For the positions of modern scholars, see Tsukinowa 1936, Johnston 1950:xi, Frauwallner 1956:255, Ui 1959:89-97, Nakamura 1961, Takasaki 1966:6-9, Seyfort Ruegg 1969:46, Takasaki 1974:3-13, Takasaki 1989:392-397, Takasaki 1999:3-7. Takasaki (1999:15-18) concisely presents previous studies on the authorship of the RGV.